The witness, a close family friend of the Zimmermans, also portrayed the defendant and his family as "boastfully racist". The woman is the second person in the past week to describe the Zimmermans as vociferously bigoted. "I was afraid [Zimmerman] might have done something because the kid was black," investigators quoted her as saying about the Martin killing.

This is the kind of person some people here are rabidly defending. SMH.